Last but not least: Beckham's fateful affair with Zimmerli
The team at Zimmerli of Switzerland—a small but fine underwear manufacturer—must have been blown away when they found out: David Beckham wears Zimmerli—officially, in the 2009 Beckham calendar. It’s just too bad that the British heartthrob is already under contract with Emporio Armani Underwear.
It must have blown the minds of the crew of the small but fine underwear manufacturer Zimmerli of Switzerland when they found out: David Beckham is wearing Zimmerli. And not at home in the garden playing with his sons and spouse, no, officially in the Beckham 2009 calendar. An employee of the company tracked down the suspicious pictures on the online platform of 20 Minuten. The company is quoted in the Sunday newspaper as saying that it is considering how to exploit this good news in a legal way. The fact that shortly after the good news was delivered, the first doubts (Is it perhaps a Beckham lookalike? Or even an undershirt from another manufacturer?) emerged, Michael Sarp, head of Zimmerli's parent company v.Nordeck, cares little: One is quite happy, everything else does not matter.
So far so good. But there's a small catch: our British beauty is under contract with Emporio Armani Underwear. The deal is said to be worth 28 million euros. At Armani, however, they don't seem too impressed by Beckham's alleged infidelity: "Zimmerli? Honestly, that doesn't mean anything to me," said a press spokesman at the company's headquarters when asked by the Sunday newspaper. However, he promised to look into the matter - but first he would have to get hold of the calendar. You'd have to be a press officer at Armani...
